Text of poem:
Nor strange it is, to us who walk in bonds
Of flesh and time, if virtue's self awhile
Gleam dull like sunless ice; whilst graceful guile—
Blood-flecked like hematite or diamonds
With a red inward spark—to reconcile
Beauty and evil seems and corresponds
So well with good that the mind joys to have
Full wider jet and scope nor swings and sleeps
Forever in one cradle wearily:
Like those vast weeds that off d'Acunha's isle
Wash with the surf and flap their mighty fronds
Mournfully to the dipping of the wave,
Yet cannot be disrupted from their deeps
By the whole heave and settle of the sea.
Topics discussed in this episode include:
-That time Italy almost got involved in the Civil War
-Transcendentalism (or not)
-Hawthorne continues to demonstrate his good taste
-Yvor Winters? Witter Bynner? Who names these people?
-Previous feature N. Scott Momaday
-Nonce sonnets!
-Antinomian ruminations
-Virtue vs. Goodness
-The cradle and the weed
-Poe's "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym"
-Pesky dualities
-Surfing the Tao
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The landscape of Ohioan poetry (Jeremy): Poetry Spotlight
Supported in part by The Ohio Poetry Association
Art by David Anthony Klug
List of the most common metrical feet:
Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)
Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)
Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)
Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)
Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)
Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)
Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)
Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)
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